Lionhead steams up Fable III co-operative play with “intimate” feature

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Lionhead Studios plans to spice up Fable III‘s cooperative multiplayer mode with a new steamy feature: the ability to get “intimate” online.

The latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine UK explains that players will be able to not only have in-game romantic relations with their co-op partners but even produce offspring with them.

OXM’s Mike Channell writes:

The team seems committed to ensuring the [co-op] experience is in no way compromised. You’ll be able to enjoy, ahem, intimate moments with your co-op friend and eventually produce offspring together.

The cooperative play in the second Fable did not ship with the original title but was later added as a free Xbox LIVE downloadable patch. Using this patch, players could drop in and out of their friends’ games, not as their own custom heroes but as “henchmen.” As such, the intruding player had no access to quests but could still earn loot.

When you come into my world, you come in as your hero, with your dog, with all your unique weapons, self-crafted weapons. I heard you — you don’t wanna be tied to my camera, you wanna go off and do your own thing in my world. Fine, fair enough.

Of course, this level of accessibility may not always lead to a positive experience. Molyneux warned that players could mess up each others’ games using the new “touch” feature, a system that allows players to physically interact with NPCs and co-op partners:

Yes, you can use touch with your co-op partner. Yes, you can walk down the street hand-in-hand. Yes, you can drag your co-op partner to your dungeon and see what happens. Absolutely.